Travis Kelce is clarifying the truth behind recent online rumors about himself.
“I gotta make a little statement in the ‘don’t believe everything you read, kids’ category or nice realm that you see online,” Travis, 35, shared on the Wednesday, April 9, episode of his and Jason Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast. “Some false claims were thrown out there that I was doing something in the community that I was not, and I’m not even gonna talk about it specifically. I don’t want to bring any more attention to that whole nonsense and article and all that stuff.”
Travis noted that if fans “ever want to know exactly what I’m doing in the community, just go to 87running.org,” he said of his 87 & Running Foundation. “We’re always trying to get out there in and get in the Kansas City communities and the Cleveland community,” he continued. “But this time, I wasn’t doing what was falsely claimed by the social channels or the outlets posting all this A.I. stuff. So, just wanted to set the record straight.”
Though Travis did not specify the false news he was discussing, the Kansas City Chiefs star was recently rumored to have purchased a $3.3 million house in the team’s home city that would serve as temporary housing for homeless youth.
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Travis wrapped up the discussion by thanking fans for their support, stating, “Appreciate everybody for always trying to show love.”
The athlete is no stranger to helping kids off the football field. He founded 87 & Running in 2015 to “empower disadvantaged youth to achieve success by providing resources and support to their communities and cultivating their talent in the areas of education, business, athletics, stem, and the arts,” per the organization’s website.
So far this year, 87 & Running has given several families free tickets to Monster Jam in Kansas City and Cleveland. The organization’s LEGO Robotics Team at Union Station in Kansas City also competed at a Union Station competition back in January.
“Thank you to @monsterjam for sending the @87running truck out to Roxboro Middle School to visit with some of the kids from Cleveland Heights before their show in Cleveland,” the foundation captioned Instagram pics of students posing with 87 & Running-themed Monster Jam truck on February 14. “Driver @barimusawwir is a fellow Heights grad!! We will be sending 200 kids with perfect attendance to the event this weekend! @heightsschoolsfoundation,”
Last year, Travis and the foundation teamed up with Rebuilding Together Kansas City to save the home of longtime Kansas City resident Gloria White. “I love it here and I even love it more now,” White, who competed at the Olympic trials in the past, gushed in a January 2024 Instagram video about the renovation.
Rebuilding Together Kansas City executive director Scott Hickox went on to praise Travis in the clip, telling local news station KSHB 41, “For Travis to care enough, for his foundation to care enough about what’s happening about our city here in Kansas City, this meant the world that he could partner with us on this.”
In addition to continuing his community work, Travis will return to the football field for the 2025/2206 NFL season. For now, he’s enjoying the off-season by spending time with his girlfriend, Taylor Swift.
“Taylor and Travis are doing great, and they’re still very much together and in love,” a source exclusively shared in an Us Weekly cover story earlier this month. “They’re just taking a break from the public eye.”
Another source added that Travis “wants to take [a breather] from the public eye” after the Chiefs’ Super Bowl LIX loss in February. “He was working too much last year, and he didn’t play as well as he wanted,” the insider explained. “He wants to have a good season and not have the focus be on his relationship with Taylor.”
